Welcome to Teaching!

You've made the incredible decision to become an educator because you want to impact the learning lives of young people. Thank you, and welcome. We welcome you to this amazing profession with open arms, and with an arsenal of experience and essential tools, strategies, and lessons to help you establish a successful and satisfying teaching career. We wanted to make it easier for you to learn and practice these techniques that research shows increase student learning. To do so, we also considered cognitive psychology research that tells us that images and illustrations can help strengthen communication and our own understanding. This helped us develop the unique format for this book: part hands-on playbook, part professional book, and all highly illustrated, it is designed to make complicated concepts more digestible and memorable.

Key Features :

i : Great way to plan powerful learning experiences that ensure student engagement
ii : 22 step-by-step learning strategies for any grade and any subject
iii : Detailed guidance for developing formative and summative assessments
iv : 30+ classroom videos demonstrating the techniques and strategies in action
v : Author: Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Taryl Hansen